US Patent Issued to Sharp on Feb. 17 for "Touch sensor device and touch panel device capable of adjusting detection threshold for identifying a type of touch" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,355, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Touch sensor device and touch panel device capable of adjusting detection threshold for identifying a type of touch" was invented by Mikio Itoh (Sakai, Japan) and Kohichi Sugiyama (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch sensor device includes: a touch sensor; a touch operation detector that detects a touch size by a touch operation of a user for the touch sensor; a touch operation identifier that identifies a type of the touch operation based on the touch size and at least one threshold; and an adjustment controller that adjusts the threshold in accordan...